II Mod. D 'Robert Capa'
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Hammer Price
€78,000
incl. Buyer's Premium
Estimate €15,000 – 18,000
Condition : B
Manufacture Year : 1932
A historic sensation is the discovery of Robert Capa's first Leica (received from Mr.Guttmann, owner of Hungarian Agency Dephot in 1932) - originating from the estate of Capa's mother Julie Friedman ('Mother Goose'), it comes with Elmar 3.5/5cm no.133594, case and a large quantity of original letters between Mother Goose and Austrian New York based photographer Lisl Steiner (she received the camera from Capa's mother in the early 1960s). Magnum photographer Robert Capa was born 1913 in Budapest and died in Thai Binh, Vietnam on May 25th,1954.